High performance athletes are like walking, talking, living, breathing performance systems – with everything dependent on everything else.

The reductionist approach just does not apply to applied sports science research.

Thanks,

WG

The few soundly designed project that are also complex enough to address multiple variables, confounders and interactions AND still permit a simple interpretation are a rare find indeed.

And don’t forget that sport science does not deal with normal data distributions either.

Coaches and sport science support teams must understand statistics to help understand fact from fiction.

Cheers!